Comments on Bring the Books: How Not to Read

No, I can't BlueDog, because I don't actua...

2012-01-23T08:38:15.453-06:00

No, I can't BlueDog, because I don't actually have the one pictured. Mine is from an 1844 edition, so the pages wouldn't be right. Maybe some other enterprising reader can. I can say that it comes from one of the chapters on the pastor in study.

Can you tell what page this quote is on (in the bo...

2012-01-22T20:45:44.239-06:00

Can you tell what page this quote is on (in the book pictured, not the ebook)?

When I was browsing the footnotes, I thought I saw...

2012-01-15T15:39:59.364-06:00

When I was browsing the footnotes, I thought I saw a couple which referred to the author in the third person, which is pretty much my sole reason for thinking they were added by later editors. Far from a scholarly argument, I'm afraid.

Really?! Wow. I love the footnotes. Huh... You'...

2012-01-15T15:06:12.021-06:00

Really?! Wow. I love the footnotes. Huh... You're about to bust a paradigm on me. Better to not think too much about it ;-)

I haven't studied the history of Bridges enough to know for sure. where did you hear that?

I'm actually stripping the footnotes. I don&#...

2012-01-14T17:28:25.628-06:00

I'm actually stripping the footnotes. I don't think they are original with Bridges, however. I believe that they are editorial additions, though I'm open to correction.

Adam, I'm excited to hear about your project. ...

2012-01-14T09:21:07.420-06:00

Adam, I'm excited to hear about your project. I, too, have started working on that book, but then the project stalled. My hang up was that Bridges' footnotes are pure gold most of the time, and I wanted to make the footnotes accessible, but I was torn on how best to do that.

I have the beautiful print edition that you've used in the picture. It is one of my treasured books (although, I must confess, I have not finished it yet). I'll get stuck on a page thinking about the implications of what he's saying and then I won't make it any further.